Stakeholder Engagement: MC Staff Union

1. MC Staff Union

With the aim of creating a more positive working environment, MC proactively engages its staff union in efforts to formulate and implement measures that reflect the voice of employees.

Full-time members of MC's Staff Unio
Full-time members of MC's Staff Union

These efforts seek to achieve the following goals:

  1. to maintain and enhance employment conditions while improving employees' economic and social standing, and
  2. to reflect the collective opinions of MC staff in the management of the company, thus contributing to the sound development of MC and the fulfillment of its public mission.

2. Organization overview

Formed in 1970, the Mitsubishi Corporation Staff Union is now in its 56th year, with 2,717 members as of October, 2025. Based on an agreement with the company, all eligible employees join the union. The union carries out a variety of activities and is led by a representative committee comprising 4 full-time members and 52 members (including a 18-member executive committee), who are selected from twelve branches established at division, branch and other offices of MC.

3. Organization functions and regular meetings with MC

MC's Staff Union is distinguished by having the following functions.

  1. The check and proposal functions that ensure that the voice of employees is reflected in corporate initiatives including HR systems.
  2. The support function that ensures that employees are properly informed about the various HR systems introduced by MC under labor-management agreements.

To execute these functions MC regularly holds the following two major labor-management meetings.

  1. (i) Labor-management meetings held at various levels of the organization including each business department, division and business group (ultimately held once a year with the president).
  2. (ii) Labor-management discussions led by the expert committee (composed of members from across each division and business group and based on topics that affect all union members).